"...Duvall is a blazing wonder in a film that ranks with the year's best..." Rolling Stone "...Duvall is a heaven-inspired acting machine..." Sight and Sound "...Fascinating, eccentric....[Duvall is] righteous, charismatic....Enough to renew your faith -- in movies, at the very least..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "...A sweetly believable tone....A rare display of spiritual light on screen..." New York Times "...A lyrical tale of redemption....Duvall delivers a bravura, Oscar-quality performance....THE APOSTLE is a profoundly humane movie that crackles with the joy and sorrow of an old blues record..."Premiere "...THE APOSTLE is a good little movie dominated by a great central performance that's likely to endure..." USA Today "...THE APOSTLE sees its characters in an unusually perceptive light; they have the complexity and spontaneity of people in a documentary..." Chicago Sun-Times27.60755

"...The 6TH DAY comes complete with the gripping car chases, shoot-'em-ups, great gimmicks, and, of course, mano-a-mano combat with sadistic henchmen..." Total Film "...Packed with amusing satirical details of a not-so-brave new world." Entertainment Weekly "...A crisp and agreeable futuristic adventure....Witty and sophisticated..." Sight and Sound "...It's a well-crafted entertainment....Schwarzenegger once again gets mileage out of the contrast between his muscular presence and his everyman persona..." Chicago Sun-Times27.60755

"...Duvall is terrific....Watching [CONVICTS] is like being gifted with eerie foresight..." New York Times "...It is of sufficient scope to afford Robert Duvall one of his juiciest roles....CONVICTS boasts wonderful ensemble performances..." Los Angeles Times22.70584

"...The thematic element alone makes the film well worth the viewing time....Duvall's savvy thespian nuances are a delight..." Variety "...THE LIGHTSHIP is a fine, offbeat thriller....Skolimowksi is still a master at creating and sustaining mood..." Los Angeles Times22.08604

"...Gentle and sweet..." Chicago Sun-Times "...It achieves some touching moments....Haley Joel Osment reconfirms his understated skills..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...In McCanlies' deft hands, the emotions are carefully harvested..." Total Film "...Writer-director Tim McCanlies' feel-good celebration of youth and old age enriching each other is carefully leavened with humor..." Variety "Michael Caine and Robert Duvall play well off each other..." Sight and Sound0.6205379

"...Riveting....Jaw-dropping location footage..." Rolling Stone "...[A] fascinating account of the making of APOCALYPSE NOW..." Sight and Sound "...The most spectacular inside look ever offered into the ineffable process of filmmaking....Through Coppola, the film reveals the spirit -- still alive and kicking -- that put the dream in the dream factory..." Entertainment Weekly "...An almost hypnotic document. All the interviewees are salty and unsparing, of themselves especially. Milius is bearish and hilarious; Eleanor idealistic, precise; Coppola nakedly open..." Los Angeles Times "...Fascinating, harrowing film history. We feel for once we are witnessing the true story of how a movie got made..." Chicago Sun-Times "...A classic in its own right..." Total Film0.2073384

3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A]cutely hilarious....THANK YOU FOR SMOKING mines comic gold from a topic that's no laughing matter. Aaron Eckhart is a fierce and funny dynamo..." Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "[Reitman] understands that the author's verbal slapstick and pyrotechnical plot turns are both smart and broad, and he and his cast, led by Aaron Eckhart at his most hilariously slick, just let rip." Premiere "[I]t may provide some transitory pleasure for its ostensible equal-opportunity political skewering." New York Times "Jason Reitman's film festival hit is a cheeky, irreverent blast of political incorrectness." Movieline's Hollywood Life "This razor-sharp satire is the wittiest dark comedy of the year thus far....Eckhart gives a whip-smart performance."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "Reitman is fighting absurdity with absurdity..." Total Film "[T]here's sufficient blistering irony in its first hour and a steady enough rat-a-tat-tat of new-millennium cynicism to make THANK YOU FOR SMOKING addictive stuff." Sight and Sound "Eckhart advocates devilishly as tobacco lobbyist/spin surgeon Nick Naylor..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ith a snappy visual style and a terrific ensemble cast..."Uncut0.172782

"...Dead-on...Loaded with journalism truisms..." - Recommended Premiere "...[Keaton and Howard] are still on a simpatico wavelength..." USA Today "...Fizzy, fast-paced....[Keaton] at his most urgent and winning..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...It's as crowd-pleasing as PARENTHOOD....THE PAPER never stops for breath long enough to be dull..." Los Angeles Times0.172782

"...Hypnotic....A Grisham thriller has rarely been this sexy or this much fun..." Rolling Stone "...A neo-noir thriller that unwinds with off-kilter promise..." USA Today "...Altman plays a John Grisham mystery in a seductive new key with THE GINGERBREAD MAN....[The film illustrates] the delicacy of Mr. Altman's brooding, richly atmospheric style..." New York Times "...[Altman] does fine work, both with his camera and with his troupe..." Box Office "...[Altman] proves that age hasn't mellowed his temperament or his talent....[The filmmakers] create a dark, eerie canvas for this tale of spiraling chaos..." Premiere "...THE GINGERBREAD MAN is beautifully photographed....Altman had a fine time composing difficult shots..." Los Angeles Times "...Grisham has a sure sense of time and place, and Altman and his actors invest the material with a kind of lurid sincerity..." Chicago Sun-Times0.172782